To:G. V. PLEKHANOV

Published:First published in 1926.

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      Moscow,Volume 34,

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July 7, 1901

Howis your work going? All this time I have been
wanting to write you about the ending to Orthodox’s article,
i.e., the later addendum concerning Berdayev’s
article[2]in No. 6 ofMir Bozhy. OurStruvefreundliche Partei[3]rejectedthis ending by a majority of 2 3/4 votes against 1 1/4
(Alexei “divided himself” into 3/4 and 1/4)—I was left in the
minority with my “in favour”. They didn’t like the note
on romantic love either, no? the general character of the
addendum. In my opinion, however, it gave a brief, sharp,
clear and business-like rebuff to the gentleman in question?
the concluding verses are especially good!

Weare again told in letters from Russia that there is
to be a congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour
Party—in one town even an invitation has been received.
It is extremely important to make haste with the programme.
Write, please, whether you are thinking of
undertaking and can undertake this work. Apart from you and
P. B. there is really no one: the formulation requires
intensive thinking put, but with the bustle existing here, for
example, it is quite impossible to concentrate and give
proper thought to it. Those old drafts of the programme
and the article (that is, one draft and one article) which.
Alexei brought you—and which he quite wrongly took
back—are hardly likely to be of much use, are they? What
do you think? If, however, you need them, we shall
immediately send them to you.

Ihave ordered Shakhovskoi and
Tezyakov.[4]Why do
you need them for the programme? You are not thinking
of drawing up demands for the agricultural workers on the
basis of them, are you? And what is your attitude to demandsfor the peasantry? Do you in general accept the possibility
of such demands in the Russian Social-Democratic
programme?

Theproofs of your article have not yet come.ZaryaNo. 2
contains: Old Believer onRusskoye Bogatstvo, V. I. on
Berdayev, I have written on the Witte memorandum and
trounced the
Preface[5](I am thinking of sending it to
you for your advice, but I don’t know whether there will
be enough time), Alexei has an essay on “The Tasks of
the Socialist Intelligentsia”—you have seen it, what do you
think of it? I shall write, too, against
Chernov.[1].

And will
you do the review of the miscellanyAt the Post of Honour?

ForIskra(No. 6 is being set up and will appear in July,
No. 7 should appear in August) we are expecting from you
articles concerning the letter of a worker and on the
“Rebirth of Revolutionism in Russia”.

Parvusis still standing by his “organisation”!

Kautskypassed through here. He is going on holiday
and does not promise to write anything just now.

Nevzorovhas sentIskraa “disgusting” (the comment
of V. I. and Puttman) article against the article “Where
To
Begin”[6]—a hymn to the committees, a defence
(evasive) ofRabocheye Dyelo, etc. We shall return it to the
author (we shall make a copy and send it to you, if you like).

Yes,regarding the plan of federation or amalgamation
with the Union, I hope you have seen our counter-plan?
If not, ask Koltsov to get it from Dvinskaya. I doubt
whether anything will come of this.

Allthe very best.Yours....

Oh,yes, about the money from the Belgians for our
movement. I think one-third should be given toRabocheye
Dyelo: for the sake of 50–100 francs it is not worth while
to give cause even for talk.

[1]“TheAgrarian Question and the ’Critics of Marx”’ (see present
edition, Vol. 5).—Ed.

[2]Berdayev,Nikolai Alexandrovich(1874-1948)—a reactionary
idealist philosopher and publicist.

Thereference here is to his article “The Fight for Idealism”,
published in the journalMir BozhyNo. 6, for 1901. p. 74

[3]StruvefreundlichePartei—the name by which Potresov and
Zasulich were jokingly called among the editorial staff ofIskra. p. 74

[4]Thereference is to the books: N. Shakhovskoi,Agricultural Outside
Employments, Moscow, 1896; N. I. Tezyakov,Agricultural Workers
and the Organisation of Sanitary Supervision Over Them in Kherson
Gubernia, Kherson, 1896. p. 74

[5]Thepreface to Witte’s “memorandum” was written by
P. B. Struve. Lenin “trounced” Struve’s preface in
Chapter V of his article “The Persecutors of the Zsemstvo and the
Hannibals of Liberalism” (see Vol. 5 of this edition). p. 75

[6]Thisrefers to Nevzorov’s (Y. M. Staklov’s) article “And
So, Where Do We Begin?” directed against Lenin’s article
“Where To Begin” (see Vol. 5 of this edition). p. 75